[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Persian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa) › [Story books adapted from India](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa) › [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt) › 301 # سندبادنامه 301 English (machine translation) 301 - **Language:** English ### [301.1](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.301.1) It is the season of grape juice; the vat is drunk with it and the wineskin intoxicated. ### [301.2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.301.2) Arise, let us hasten to the garden, for with wine and fruit there is feasting within it!’ The ape was wandering through the fig-grove, examining each one; some it consumed, and some it dried for storage for future days, so that when the rival Autumn begins his brawl, and the hand of Winter begins to release the arrow of biting frost from the bow of heaven, and the sun prepares to tease out cotton from the bow of Sagittarius, and the nature of the world begins to forge an emerald coat of mail from the water of the pools, and the leaves of the trees, having fallen into a tertian fever from the sharpness of the sting of Scorpio, and having reached palpitations from pestilential winds in the jaundice-crisis of afflictions, and yellowness having appeared upon the trees, and trembling upon the branches, should begin to fall from the blow of the violent freezing wind of winter, and the plain and the meadow remain bare and destitute of foliage and fruit, the humiliation of hunger—which breaks the backs of lions and crushes the hearts of the brave: ## Linked texts (1) - [سندبادنامه](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama.301.1) — Ẓahīrī Samarqandī, Persian --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.301](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.fa.qissa.sindbadnama~en-mt.301) · Pramāṇa